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Aureate Vertical
Artist:
George Morrison
(American, 1919 - 2000)
Date: 1958
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 48 x 80 in. (121.9 x 203.2 cm)
Classification: Modern art
Credit Line: Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Copyright: © Estate of George Morrison
Object number: 71.3018
Terms
- Abstract
In Collection(s)
On view
DescriptionOil on canvas painting.
Exhibition History"Remix Redux: A Fresh Mix For Our Modern And Contemporary Galleries," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia, August 15 - December 30, 2012.
Label textGeorge Morrison
American, 1919–2000
Aureate Vertical, 1958
Oil on canvas
Chrysler was an ambitious collector of paintings by students and teachers from the Arts Students League in 1958, assembling a representative group of works by abstract expressionists of New York, where he spent most of his time. George Morrison’s densely faceted surface and resplendent reds and yellows make this painting seem one with nature, like a sheer granite cliff glowing hot in the desert sun. “Aureate” in the work’s title means “encrusted with gold,” another reference to the intense color palette. Morrison, a
Chippewa artist from Minnesota, embraced the complex abstract aesthetic of the New
York School but never lost sight of the Midwest’s basic forms and textures of nature: rocks, trees, water, and the horizon line separating earth and sky.
Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 71.3018
American, 1919–2000
Aureate Vertical, 1958
Oil on canvas
Chrysler was an ambitious collector of paintings by students and teachers from the Arts Students League in 1958, assembling a representative group of works by abstract expressionists of New York, where he spent most of his time. George Morrison’s densely faceted surface and resplendent reds and yellows make this painting seem one with nature, like a sheer granite cliff glowing hot in the desert sun. “Aureate” in the work’s title means “encrusted with gold,” another reference to the intense color palette. Morrison, a
Chippewa artist from Minnesota, embraced the complex abstract aesthetic of the New
York School but never lost sight of the Midwest’s basic forms and textures of nature: rocks, trees, water, and the horizon line separating earth and sky.
Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 71.3018
Published References
George Morrison, as told to Margo Fortunato Galt, _Turning the Feather Around, My Life in Art_ (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1998), 100.
Gerald Vizenor, _George Morrison: The Story of a Distinguished Anishaabe Expressionist Painter_, 58 min., Santa Fe, NM, School of American Research (Lecture series/Membership Events), January 29, 2004, DVD.